Since the 1990s, in response to dramatic transformations in the worlds of technology and the economy, design a once relatively definable discipline, complete with a set of subdisciplines has become unrecognizable. Consequently, design scholars have begun to address new issues, themes and sub-disciplines such as: sustainable design, design for well-being, empathic design, design activism, design anthropology, and many more.
The Routledge Companion to Design Studies charts this new expanded spectrum and embraces the wide range of scholarship relating to design theoretical, practice-related and historical that has emerged over the past four decades. Comprising forty-three newly commissioned chapters, the Companion is organized into the following six sections:
Defining design: discipline, process
Defining design: objects, spaces
Designing identities: gender, sexuality, age, nation
Designing society: empathy, responsibility, consumption, the everyday
Design and politics: activism, intervention, regulation
Designing the world: globalization, transnationalism, translation.
Contributors include both established and emerging scholars and the chapters offer an international scope, covering work emanating from, and relating to, design in the United Kingdom, mainland Europe, North America, Asia, Australasia and Africa.
This comprehensive collection makes an original and significant contribution to the field of Design Studies.
INTRODUCTION
Penny Sparke
PART ONE
Defining Design: Discipline, Process
Penelope Dean
Free For All
Jilly Traganou
Wall Street Bounded and Unbinding: The Spatial as a Multifocal Lens in
Design Studies
Alison Prendiville
Connectivity Through Service Design
Louise Valentine
A Curious Journey into an Unknown World
Christopher Boyko, Yi Chang Lee, Rachel Cooper,
Design Decision Making
Lois Weinthal
Drawing the Dotted Line
Janice Helland
The Craft and Design of Dressmaking, 1880 -1907
PART TWO
Defining Design: Objects, Spaces
Robert Friedel
Artifice, Materials and the Choices of Design
Paul Atkinson
Writing the Design History of Computers
Victoria Kelley
Keeping it on the Surface: Design, Surfaces and Taste
Trevor Keeble
Table Stories: History, Meaning and Narrative in Contemporary Homemaking
Marilyn Cohen
Wall Street(s)
Viviana Narotzky
Beyond Perfection. Object and process in twenty-first century design and
material culture
PART THREE
Designing Identities: Gender, Sexuality, Age, Nation
Christopher Breward
Modern Dressing: the suit as practice and symbol
Penny Sparke
Arranging the Aspidistras: nature, culture and the design of the feminine
sphere in the nineteenth century
John Potvin
From Bright Young Thing to Vile Body to Posthumous Reliquary: Stephen
Tennant, queer excess and the decadent interior
Amy F. Ogata
Designing Childhood
Noel Waite
Futures Fairs: Industrial exhibitions in New Zealand 1865-1925
Paul Hazell
A Difficult Road: Designing a post-colonial car for Africa
Jeremy Aynsley
The Cultural Representation of Graphic Design in East and West Germany, 1949
to 1970
Kjetil Fallan
A Match Made in Utopia: the uneasy love affair of art and industry in
Scandinavia
PART FOUR
Designing Society: Empathy, Responsibility, Consumption, the Everyday
Barbara Penner
From Ergonomics to Empathy: Herman Miller and MetaForm
Deana McDonagh
How Products Satisfy Needs Beyond the Functional: empathy supporting
consumer-product relationships
Joseph McBrinn
Refashioning disability: the case of Painted Fabrics Ltd, 1915-1959
Rama Gheerawo
Socially Inclusive Design: a people-centred perspective
Lorraine Gamman and Adam Thorpe
What is "Socially Responsive Design and Innovation"?
Ming Cheung
Use Experience Design in Digital Service Information
Prasad Boradkar
Design + Anthropology: An Emergent Discipline
Ben Highmore
Design, Daily Life and Matters of Taste
PART FIVE
Design and Politics: Activism, Intervention, Regulation
Tony Fry
Configuring Design as Politics Now
Alison J. Clarke
Design for the Real World: Victor Papanek and the Emergence of Humane
Design
Eeva Berglund
Impossible Maybe, Perhaps Quite Likely: Activist design in Helsinkis urban
wastelands
Stuart Walker
Design for Meaningful Innovation
Rebecca Reubens
Towards Holistic Sustainability Design: The Rhizome Approach
Fiona Fisher
Regulating Design: Spaces and Boundaries of the Late Nineteenth-Century
Public House
PART SIX
Designing the World: Globalization, Transnationalism, Translation
Victor Margolin
A World History of Design
Grace Lees-Maffei
"Why Then the Worlds my Oyster": Consumption and Globalization, 1851 to
now
Meltem O Gürel
Designing and Consuming the Modern in Turkey
Joana Ozorio de Almeida Meroz
Three Dutchnesses of Dutch Design: The Construction of a National Practice
at the Intersection of National and International Dynamics
Tanishka Kachru
The Staging of Indian National Identity Through Exhibitions, 1850-1947
Elise Hodson
Exhibiting Independent India: Textiles and Ornamental Arts at the Museum of
Modern Art in New York
Christine Guth
Design before Design in Japan
Yuko Kikuchi
The Cold War Design Business of John D. Rockefeller 3rd
Penny Sparke is a Professor of Design History and Director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC) at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London. Her publications include Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration (2005), The Modern Interior (2008) and An Introduction to Design and Culture, 1900 to the Present, 3rd edition (2012). She is the present Chair of the editorial board of the Journal of Design History.
Fiona Fisher is a Researcher in Design History at the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC), Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London, where she is Curator of the University's Dorich House Museum. Her publications include Designing the British Post-War Home: Kenneth Wood, 19481968 (2015) and, co-edited with Christopher Breward and Ghislaine Wood, British Design: Tradition and Modernity after 1948 (2015). She is the present Managing Editor of the Journal of Design History.
